The Good News!

We're waiting, with baited breath, the totaly not-influenced-by-the-white-house report of Generalisimo Patraeus, where he will tell us "it's hard werk, but we're making progress, and we need more time", despite what everyone else thinks, including Generalisimo Patraeus' own boss, Admiralisimo Fallon(gong).

Meanwhile.. We're Surging Bitches!!!!!!11

BAGHDAD — When President Bush announced in January what the White House called a “New Way Forward” in Iraq, he said that Iraqi and American troops would improve security while the Iraqi government improved services. Responsibility for security in most of Iraq would be turned over to Iraqi security forces by November.

With better security would come the breathing room needed for political reconciliation, Bush said.

With less than a week to go before the White House delivers a congressionally mandated report on that plan, none of this has happened.
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According to the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, 984 people were killed across Iraq in February, and 1,011 died in violence in August. No July numbers were released because the ministry said the numbers weren't clear.

But an official in the ministry who spoke anonymously because he wasn't authorized to release numbers said those numbers were heavily manipulated.

The official said 1,980 Iraqis had been killed in July and that violent deaths soared in August, to 2,890.

But serious people like Joe Lieberman and John McCain will say that we can't afford to "lose" in Iraq, without..

Oh.. I forgot the good news, for the Loons that whine that that the media is not "balanced". Anybody have a story of a new school getting a paint job that I can link to?